Ice-cream-cone oven.



L. LANIER. ICE CREAM CONE OVEN. APPLICATION FILED APE.1, 1909,

Patented July 19-, 1910.

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ICE CREAM CONE OVEN.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 1, 1909.

Patented July 19, 1910.

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LEWIS H. LANIEBI, OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY, ASSIGiNOR OF ONE-HALF TGL. Ia.

' STRICKER, F CINCINNATI, OHIO.

ICE-CREAM-CONE OVEN.

specification of Letters latent.

Patented Juiydi), 1910..

Application filed April 1, 1909'. Serial No. 487,349.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS H. Lennon, a

I citizen of the United States, residing at capacity of the oven and ermitting two of the cones to be baked with one burner and one oven where at present two burners and two ovens would be required.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, one ofthe plates being lifted and the burner casing being shown in section and broken away. Fig. 2 1s a plan view showing the inner faces of the top and bottom plates and showing an edge of my middle plate, Fig. 3 is a side elevation, the middle plate being-lifted in a vertical position. Fig.4 is a section through the oven, folded, and tahenon the line of the handles. Fig. 5 is a transverse section taken centralli through the oven at right angles to Fig.

lit-these drawings 1 represents the portion oi theburncr casing upon which the oven is supported, 2 and 3 of the usual top and bottom plates rovided with operating handles l, and it wi l he understood that as these devices are revolved in bearings provided by the burner casin 1, the terms top and bottom plates are re ative terms employed only for convenience of description.

The construction above described is that of the oven now in ordinary use. In my construction however, the top and bottom. plates are spaced fartheriapart than in the usual construction as they do not close directly upon each other as in the common form of oven. 'lhese lates are provided with lugs 5 through which passes a suitable bolt 6 for the purpose of hmgin themtowhich the boltfi a so passes, thus hinging all of the lates to other. The middle plate 3' may be armed i desired in one piece, but

and bottom Q plates now used, thereby doubling the a I prefer to form the middle plate of upper and lower sections a and b, the words upper and lower being also relative terms, since these plates also IGVGlVQWltll plates 2 and 3.

The sections a and b are provided at each end With laterally extending lugs 9, the lugs of each section being arranged opposite each other and these lugs coming together space the sections a and b from each other thus forming a heating chamber 10 between the said sections. The outer faces of the sections a and b and the inner facesofplates 2 and 3 are grooved as shown at .11 to form a grid upon said faces, It will now be obvious that there is formed an oven for bakin cones between thosectio'n a and the p ate 3 and the section b and the plate 2, thus enabling me to bake two cones in practically the same length of time required to bake one with the ordinaform of oven. To

permit the heatin. o thochamber l0 the sections a and 6 than plates '2 and 3, and the periphe of these plates are cut away upon one si e as shown at 12, the said out out portions being ave a greater diameter off-set with respect. to cach'other. Bytlus means the heat from the burner passes up plate, which checks further. upward move" ment of the heat which then passes into the heating chamber 10 t It will now be obvious that while one cone,

is being baked between one of the outer plates and a section of the middle plate, the parts beingin the position shown in Fig. 1, batter tor a second cone may be placed upon the middle plate, and the top plate then closed, and the device turned and the second cone will be baked during the removal of the first, and the pouring in of another supply of batter for a third.

The operation of baking, removing and pouring 1n of the batter can then go on continuously and simultaneously, to a certain extent, thus greatly increasing the capacity of the oven, and at the same time decreasing the amount of fuel consumed as only one burner is in use for the double oven.

What I claim is f 1. An ice cream cone oven comprising outer hinged plates, and" a middle plate hinged between'said outer plates, a heating chamber bein formed in'said middle plate, one surface 0 the middle plate extending in one direction beyond the body portion of the plate, and the opposite surface extending in the opposite direction beyond the body portionof the said middle plate.

2. The combination with the upper and lower plates of an ice cream cone oven, of a middle plate formed of two sections spaced apart and connected together.

3. in an oven of the kind described, 11 per and lower plates, a middle plate hinge between the 11 per and lower plates, one face of the mid le plate codperating with the upper plate and the other face of the middle plate cotiperating with the lower plate the said. middle plate having a central heating chamber communicating at one side With the upper plate and upon the other side with the lower plate.

4-. In a device of the kind described, the combination with hinged outer plates, of a plate hinged between the first mentioned 1 plates, the middle plate having a central rccess forming a heating chamber, the said plate having a diameter greater than the first mentioned plates, and being oppositely cut away upon its op osite sides, said out away portions affor ing communication from o posite sides of said middle plate to the Said heatin'g chamber, as and for the purpose set forth.

LEWIS H. LANIER.

Witnesses ALBERT LANIER, PHIL KIEI-IBATH. 

